325 Days of Lent

For any of you who have been following us on here, you may be wondering what we would talk about during Lent that we haven’t been discussing all year long. So, in order to mix it up, I thought I would exercise some self-denial and instead of writing specifically about the Cross, I’d write a post or two on the seeming absence of God altogether. Theologically, this concept is known as the Deus Absconditus, but we recognize it better in the question, “Why?”

There is a lot to be said about all of this, but I ran across this poem by H.D. from The Walls do not Fall, that is as good a place to start as any: enjoy! (in a reserved and penitent way, of course)

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Grant us strength to endurea little longer,

now the heart’s alabasteris broken;

we would feed foreveron the amber honey-comb

of your remembered greeting,but the old self,

still half at-home in the world,cries out in anger,

I am hungry, the children cry for foodand flaming stones fall on them;

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